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Royce Lewis and Manager Derek Shelton join FT @Twins camp · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: Okay, So we're here with Derek Shelton, manager of the
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  Speaker 1: Minnesota Twins. He's a little angry, by the way, at
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  Speaker 1: our production staff because he didn't make the front end
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  Speaker 1: right there, the manager's meeting.
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  Speaker 2: What are we doing you guys?
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  Speaker 3: New guys in there? I don't return production. It's unbelievable.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna yell at producer lady for the fact that
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  Speaker 1: she didn't put you in.
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  Speaker 3: That's good, and we run it.
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  Speaker 1: Watch it'll be when this goes when this is Yes,
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  Speaker 1: but do we put you Do you have a picture
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  Speaker 1: of you in full Twins uniform.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure Dustin can find a picture.
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  Speaker 1: But we only have pictures of Dustin shirtless or really tight. Yes, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: for super Scott to go super like so small. Really
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  Speaker 1: it's a contest between him and dust And that's why
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  Speaker 1: Scott couldn't come because the shirt cold, because they would
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  Speaker 1: be over there having a legs off the whole time
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  Speaker 1: shirt within the in the Fort Myers area. Yes, the
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  Speaker 1: one medium shirt.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, yes, exactly. By the way, and when we put
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  Speaker 3: you in, do we have to put your watch in?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? Orris, you gotta go. A lot of guys wearing orses.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of managers. They love the manager, Yeah, do they?
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  Speaker 1: Because I asked Boonie about this and he was the
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  Speaker 1: first one I noticed.
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  Speaker 2: He's the first one. He's the og. Booneye is the og.
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  Speaker 2: And then I think it went to Alex and I
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  Speaker 2: and now it's kind of becauld.
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  Speaker 3: But do you change your watch because you changed it?
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  Speaker 3: If he changed the.
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  Speaker 2: I changed it on all Booney stole the yellow from
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  Speaker 2: me because I had the yellow first. So with uh
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  Speaker 2: with the oars the big one, and then Schneid's wears
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  Speaker 2: the big which is the actual right when it's the
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  Speaker 2: big blue. But yeah, I'm getting ready to place my
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  Speaker 2: new order it. Now there's sick but Booney Boney mixes
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  Speaker 2: it up more than I do.
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  Speaker 4: But you gotta be careful. Do you have to get
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  Speaker 4: that monitored by the league, Because when I was playing
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  Speaker 4: for the Rulers, Craig Council got in trouble because they
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  Speaker 4: sent him a letter and they said he was wearing
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  Speaker 4: an Apple watch, but it was really it was a
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  Speaker 4: Mickey Mouse watch that he wore one day and all
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  Speaker 4: the arms on.
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  Speaker 3: The clock were broken.
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  Speaker 4: But Major League Baseball sent him a letter that said
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  Speaker 4: it was a you can't wear you can't wear Apple
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  Speaker 4: watches on the you know when the Red Sox were
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  Speaker 4: doing on their cheating and all that stuff like, so
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  Speaker 4: do you have to get yours, take a picture of
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  Speaker 4: it and get it monitored by There's there's.
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  Speaker 2: No, uh, there's no. We're not getting any data here.
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  Speaker 2: We're just looking cool, just looking stylish. No, it's just
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  Speaker 2: all for show. It's it's for a cool looking band
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  Speaker 2: and you know shiny, So yeah, we're going that way.
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  Speaker 2: There's no you have said you have red Navy, red
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  Speaker 2: mortaring a navy. I got a sick one that has
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  Speaker 2: an ultimeter on it, because you know you definitely need
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  Speaker 2: that on the field.
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  Speaker 3: Step step you're on.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you got a yellow one for for the city
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  Speaker 2: cannects because our city cannects are blue. So yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: mean you gotta gotta make.
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  Speaker 3: It look cool. Okay, listen, I'm all for it.
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  Speaker 2: I'mut out to our guy vjvjs or.
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  Speaker 4: I love I love your energy.
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  Speaker 5: You seem like you're in a good mood. I never
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  Speaker 5: understood the pirates a decision, but I really understand Minnesota
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  Speaker 5: wanting you to be at the helm. There's kind of
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  Speaker 5: an emphasis of development versus competitiveness. How do you balance
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  Speaker 5: that as a manager. Obviously you've been around the organization
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  Speaker 5: the last couple of years as the bench coach, but
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  Speaker 5: how do you balance Uh, you know, the the goal
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  Speaker 5: moving forward.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's a goal for for every manager in
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  Speaker 2: markets like this Alon And it's a great question because
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  Speaker 2: guys are getting to the big leagues a lot faster
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  Speaker 2: than like when AJ and Kratzy were coming up. No,
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  Speaker 2: because of the fact that you've got a ton of
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  Speaker 2: minor league at bats. Don't take it personally. We know
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  Speaker 2: the Joe Maher pictures, but I think there's so much
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  Speaker 2: development that still goes on that we have to balance it.
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  Speaker 2: We have to continue to teach. It's a large focus
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  Speaker 2: within our camp right now is making sure that we
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  Speaker 2: are developing.
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  Speaker 1: Do you know these guys, how quickly do you do
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  Speaker 1: you learn? Because you are coming from a different organization,
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  Speaker 1: and then you say, well, we have to balance developing
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  Speaker 1: and then the big league guys, how quickly do you
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  Speaker 1: learn an organization?
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  Speaker 2: Well, a lot of conversations in the off season, you
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  Speaker 2: watch video, but still learning, you know. I got asked
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  Speaker 2: the question yesterday by our local media, like have you
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  Speaker 2: decided on this and I'm like, I've seen in person
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  Speaker 2: thirty at bats, forty at bats. We're at this point
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  Speaker 2: of spring training, so we have to use the full
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  Speaker 2: spring training or at least up until the last three
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  Speaker 2: or four days to evaluate. And then you guys, know,
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  Speaker 2: the evaluation of spring training is still hard because the
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  Speaker 2: fluctuation of innings, the fluctuation of how much you're playing.
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  Speaker 2: You have to rely on the back of the baseball
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  Speaker 2: card a little bit, because, I mean, you know this,
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  Speaker 2: you played for a long time. What you do in
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  Speaker 2: a major league game is way more important than what
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  Speaker 2: you do in spring training.
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  Speaker 4: Have you seen anybody that your preconceived idea was wrong
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  Speaker 4: or maybe you are able to make a different evaluation
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  Speaker 4: of them, somebody that since you've come in camp and seen.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think with Pitcher, you get a like seeing
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  Speaker 2: TODs Bradley in person. You know, you don't understand ninety
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  Speaker 2: seven is different for everybody, but you see the ball
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  Speaker 2: come out of his hand, you see him attack. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: he goes down and pitches against New York the other day.
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  Speaker 2: And when you go to New York, you go to Tampa,
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  Speaker 2: you're gonna get a big boy lineup. You're gonna get
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  Speaker 2: their good players, and you're able to gauge off that
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  Speaker 2: you watch Luke Keishael and how he runs the bases
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  Speaker 2: and the intensity that he brings. I think there's little
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  Speaker 2: things that you're never going to find out from, you know,
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  Speaker 2: watching players on video or watching the new workouts until
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  Speaker 2: you get him in game situations.
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  Speaker 3: Has anything changed?
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  Speaker 1: Falvey? Derek Falvey was here and then all of a
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  Speaker 1: sudden he was right? Was he the one that brought
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  Speaker 1: you here? Is he the main person that was I
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  Speaker 1: don't think evolved in.
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  Speaker 2: I think he was part of it because of the
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  Speaker 2: fact that I was here before and Derek and I
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  Speaker 2: had a relationship. But the interview process here was intense.
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  Speaker 2: When you do interview, you to me with all the
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  Speaker 2: pole ouds, No, I'm at that.
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  Speaker 3: Joe, Carl, Tom, Billy, Bobby.
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  Speaker 2: At that point I met with Joe and then I've
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  Speaker 2: spent since then, spent a lot of time with Tom.
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  Speaker 2: But in terms of coming here and doing interview process,
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  Speaker 2: it's different because when you interviewed for managerial jobs, it's
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  Speaker 2: a situation where they don't know you. So a lot
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  Speaker 2: of the first part of the conversations is pleasantries. You know,
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  Speaker 2: how is this with this group that sat out and
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  Speaker 2: they knew me. I was here for two years and
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  Speaker 2: it was just right from the jump. So it was
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  Speaker 2: probably more intense than any any managerial interview I've been through.
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  Speaker 3: You won, Derek, was something you would have.
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  Speaker 5: What's something you would you want to do with the
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  Speaker 5: twins that perhaps you didn't do when you were managing before,
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  Speaker 5: Like you always want to do better than the year before,
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  Speaker 5: right with something in terms of development of your managerial career,
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  Speaker 5: would you like to take a step forward this season?
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  Speaker 2: I think there's two components to that, and one of
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  Speaker 2: it happened in the offseason, was just how you build
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  Speaker 2: your staff. The first time you build your staff, you
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  Speaker 2: really don't understand, you know, the complexity of a major
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  Speaker 2: league staff and how they interact with your players, and
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  Speaker 2: how you have to have different skill sets, how they
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  Speaker 2: have to compliment the manager. So when we built our
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  Speaker 2: staff this year was really cognizant of that. You know.
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  Speaker 2: The first two hires we made were LaTroy Hawkins, who
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  Speaker 2: bat high you probably played higher, you know, eighteen years
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  Speaker 2: in the big leagues, and then Gretty Sizemore, guy that.
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  Speaker 1: At one point, you know, every guy's doing over here.
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  Speaker 1: Every time AJ puts slider down, they hit it. Grady
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  Speaker 1: hit it in the seats, you know.
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  Speaker 2: I mean we went after major league experience first because
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  Speaker 2: I think the one thing that that I did learn
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  Speaker 2: is how important that is. We have a lot of
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  Speaker 2: skillspet set experts in our game today, but guys that
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  Speaker 2: have been around the game, that have stood in the
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  Speaker 2: box or stood on the mound. I felt it was
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  Speaker 2: really important to add to our group. So I think
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  Speaker 2: that's the first component. And then with today's players, and honestly,
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  Speaker 2: I think it's something I screwed up in Pittsburgh and
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  Speaker 2: need to do a better job of. Is you have
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  Speaker 2: a conversation with a player and then you interpret how
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  Speaker 2: you think they're going to interpret it, and you don't
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  Speaker 2: have the follow up to make sure that what was
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  Speaker 2: said is what was heard. And want to make sure
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  Speaker 2: that that I personally do a better job of that
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  Speaker 2: this time around.
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  Speaker 4: Do you feel like you were in a place to
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  Speaker 4: be able to make that follow up or did you
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  Speaker 4: feel like you're a little hamstrung when you were in
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  Speaker 4: Pittsburgh or is it just something that you're just learning
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  Speaker 4: now as you know the second time around too.
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  Speaker 2: No, I wasn't hamstrung at all. It was something that
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  Speaker 2: you learned, and you know when you get four months
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  Speaker 2: to go home and sit and reflect on it like
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  Speaker 2: I did last year and actually do this side of
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  Speaker 2: it where you're always right, I mean shocking. I was
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  Speaker 2: always right before I was on this. Okay, this is
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  Speaker 2: a bad so just this is the analogy of this.
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  Speaker 2: Using this so kratsy and a lot, I'll direct this
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  Speaker 2: at you because A J hasn't been wrong since two
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  Speaker 2: thousand and one.
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  Speaker 3: Since nineteen seventy six, seventy six, Yeah, shocking.
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  Speaker 2: I bet your wife thinks that too. I think you
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  Speaker 2: get a chance to sit home and reflect on it
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  Speaker 2: and you're like, hey, I should do this differently, and
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  Speaker 2: you know, I got the chance to do that's all summer.
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  Speaker 1: That's great. Krats brought out Pittsburgh. So since you're taking
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  Speaker 1: shots to me, it's my turn. Are you mad that
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  Speaker 1: they're went out and spent money because you kind of were.
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  Speaker 1: You kind of were in a weird spot right like
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  Speaker 1: you went there and you're like, oh man, we got
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  Speaker 1: some players and they didn't kind of And then here
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  Speaker 1: comes Skiens and Jones and Keller and then Bubba Chandler,
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  Speaker 1: and you're like, oh, here we go, and there still
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  Speaker 1: won't do anything. And then all of a sudden they're like, hey, Dereck, thanks,
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  Speaker 1: but now we're gonna go out and get Brandon Lao
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  Speaker 1: and right all these guys.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm where my feet are. You know, I'm happy
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  Speaker 2: with where I'm at. I love the group here. I'm
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  Speaker 2: happy for that group. I'm happy for that fan base.
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  Speaker 2: You know, that fan base deserves a winner. I'm happy
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  Speaker 2: for Ben that they have the ability to go out
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  Speaker 2: and spend some money, and they've done some good things
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  Speaker 2: this offseason. And then on top of having Schemes which
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  Speaker 2: is dynamic and the best pitcher in the game or
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  Speaker 2: one of the best with scooball and then they have
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  Speaker 2: Connor Griffin coming and I mean, this kid's going to
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  Speaker 2: be special. He's going to be a superstar. So I'm
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  Speaker 2: happy for that fan base. I mean, it was my
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  Speaker 2: first opportunity to manage in the big leagues. I'm always
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  Speaker 2: going to cherish that. But the fact they're going out
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  Speaker 2: and doing those things, like there's no ill will at all.
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  Speaker 4: Somebody else that didn't get brought back with Pittsburgh Andrew McCutcheon.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know if you followed it, but do you
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  Speaker 4: feel like that could have been handled differently in the
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  Speaker 4: sense that you know what Cutch means that city and
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  Speaker 4: what that city means to Cutch. Do you feel like
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  Speaker 4: they could have handled it differently in the sense that
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  Speaker 4: honored him differently or is he still do you feel
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  Speaker 4: like he's still a viable big league piece that adds value.
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  Speaker 2: To a team. He is definitely a viable big league piece.
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  Speaker 2: ABS is going to be interesting with Cutch because I
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  Speaker 2: don't know if there's anybody in the game that dominates
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  Speaker 2: the strike zone as well as he does. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: you play as long as as he has. I think
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  Speaker 2: he's in his eighteenth season, and when he comes back
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  Speaker 2: and tells you it's a ball or strike, it's a
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  Speaker 2: ball or a strike. I mean, he's that good at
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  Speaker 2: So there's definitely a fixture in terms of the first
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  Speaker 2: part of that question. Kratsey, I don't know, because I
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  Speaker 2: don't I didn't follow it close enough. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: what the conversations were between Touch and the Pirates, so
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  Speaker 2: it'd be really hard for me to to kind of
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  Speaker 2: answer that.
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  Speaker 1: Let's talk about your team now, not for the pirate
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  Speaker 1: Craftsman's talk pirates just because he's still bitter at them
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  Speaker 1: for calling him up originally.
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  Speaker 2: So let's let's.
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  Speaker 3: Ignore the pirates a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: You're in Minnesota now. I came up with Minnesota right
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  Speaker 1: and was here for a while, and I still know
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people in Minnesota. Give give my friends
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  Speaker 1: some hope for the Twins this year in twenty twenty six,
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  Speaker 1: because there's I get text and phone calls and say, oh, man, Twins,
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  Speaker 1: here we go again.
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  Speaker 3: Give give us some hope.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, a good, good point. I think starting pitching you,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you know, even without Pablo, Yeah, even without Pablo.
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  Speaker 2: And that is a blow. And if there's going to
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  Speaker 2: be if you're going to take that, it happens early
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  Speaker 2: in spring training, so at least you can get your
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  Speaker 2: other guys work. But everybody likes to talk about, you know,
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  Speaker 2: all the trades that happened last year at the deadline here.
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  Speaker 2: But when you get a guy like Mick abelback and
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  Speaker 2: you watch him go out and as good as he's
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  Speaker 2: been in spring training, and then you have Joe Ryan,
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  Speaker 2: who's a top end starter, you know, you have Sime
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  Speaker 2: and you have Zebbi you have, you have Bailey Over,
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  Speaker 2: you have that group you can win with pitching, and
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  Speaker 2: again we're still trying to figure out our bullpen and
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  Speaker 2: adding pieces to it. You have Byron Buxton, you have
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  Speaker 2: a young player like Luke Kishel. There's a lot of
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  Speaker 2: good things that could happen and then very you know, honestly,
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  Speaker 2: we play in a division where no one has really
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  Speaker 2: separated themselves, which I think is a good thing, and
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  Speaker 2: it's going to be competitive and I'm looking forward to that.
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  Speaker 2: I think we made a really good move this offseason
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  Speaker 2: and adding Josh Bell to our group. Number one, he's
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  Speaker 2: a guy that you know can hit. But number two,
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  Speaker 2: it adds another veteran presence in our clubhouse with Buck.
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  Speaker 4: You were with the Rays before and you saw how
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  Speaker 4: they could develop some pitching. It's different in every organization.
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  Speaker 4: Have you seen anything You mentioned the bullpen. You got
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  Speaker 4: to figure out how that's going to work. The Twins
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  Speaker 4: have never gone out and bought their bullpens. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: I think Glenn Perkins was probably the last guy that
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  Speaker 4: they spent any money on. And I don't even think
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  Speaker 4: I said it right. It's probably not Glenn Perkins. Something
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  Speaker 4: of a different one. But anyway, have you seen something
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  Speaker 4: that they're like, Hey, trust us, these are the guys
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  Speaker 4: that we call up. This is the things that we
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  Speaker 4: look for. Or is it kind of more your melding
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  Speaker 4: and talking to the pitching coach and saying, hey, I
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  Speaker 4: want this type of guy out of the bullpen. I
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  Speaker 4: think it's organizational and I think we've seen over the
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  Speaker 4: past that you can go out and spend money on
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  Speaker 4: bullpen and then you know, bullpens don't function.
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  Speaker 2: It's the most valuable, volatable place in our game. One year,
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  Speaker 2: it goes back and forth. You know, guys are good,
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  Speaker 2: guys are not good. So we're just looking for that consistency.
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  Speaker 2: And I think the Twins, obviously over the course of
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  Speaker 2: the last five or six years, maybe even longer, that
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  Speaker 2: have done a good job identifying arms h and putting
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  Speaker 2: them in the right position. So it's it's as much
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  Speaker 2: an organizational blend as it is you know, my personal
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  Speaker 2: opinion or our pitching group's personal opinion on it.
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  Speaker 4: So we had Tito Francono on the other day and
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  Speaker 4: he was like, when he was gone out of the game,
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  Speaker 4: he goes he goes man that ninth inning.
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  Speaker 2: It's like a drug. He's like, I love it.
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  Speaker 4: Do you get that feeling when it's you have a
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  Speaker 4: lead and it's time to make them call to the
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  Speaker 4: bullpen and you go ahead and do it, or even
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  Speaker 4: if it's the eighth or the ninth inning, do you
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  Speaker 4: get that like adrenaline spike that Tita was talking about.
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  Speaker 2: I think you do. And you know, I think it's
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  Speaker 2: more to your point, it's the eighth inning, it's the
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  Speaker 2: ninth inning, sometimes it's the seventh inning, depending on where
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  Speaker 2: you're at in the order. But yeah, that's that's that
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  Speaker 2: rush you get. And honestly, it's something in Tito kind
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  Speaker 2: of highlighted. It's something you miss when you're watching a
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  Speaker 2: game when you're not involved in it. You don't get
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  Speaker 2: that same rush. And it's nice to be able to
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  Speaker 2: be back, to be able to get that rush in
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  Speaker 2: the eighth and ninth inning.
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  Speaker 5: Derek quick question before we let you go Anthony Bonda,
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  Speaker 5: Los Angeles. All the ladies in LA were so sad
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  Speaker 5: that the lot Los Angeles Dodgers let Bonda go away.
• 14:26
  Speaker 5: So watch out Minnesota because here he comes. Two part question,
• 14:30
  Speaker 5: what do you think he brings to a good bullpen
• 14:33
  Speaker 5: that you had mentioned he had a lot of electric
• 14:35
  Speaker 5: innings for LA in his time there. But also is
• 14:38
  Speaker 5: he still setting up as the barber for your club?
• 14:41
  Speaker 2: He has not set up for the barber yet. And
• 14:44
  Speaker 2: you know, he's a guy that I actually had history
• 14:46
  Speaker 2: with because I had him in Pittsburgh. Love the guy.
• 14:48
  Speaker 2: I did not know that about the ladies, but that
• 14:51
  Speaker 2: will definitely come up in a conversation, probably as soon
• 14:54
  Speaker 2: as this interview is over. So I love that. But
• 14:57
  Speaker 2: what he brings to our bullpen is swing and miss.
• 14:59
  Speaker 2: I mean he has ability to get left handers out.
• 15:01
  Speaker 2: He has ability to get right handers out. Uh you
• 15:03
  Speaker 2: know the slider that he can throw backfoot to right handers.
• 15:05
  Speaker 2: And when you have a left hander that is kind
• 15:07
  Speaker 2: of neutral like Anthony is, it's a definite separator, especially
• 15:11
  Speaker 2: with the three battered rule. But did not know the
• 15:13
  Speaker 2: ladies component of this in LA, but that will be
• 15:16
  Speaker 2: used against him very quickly. But he was a guy
• 15:19
  Speaker 2: that when he came available, I was really excited to
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: add to our bullpen.
• 15:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah it's the tats.
• 15:25
  Speaker 2: Just watch it's the tat. Okay, all right, there we go.
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: Are you the type of manager that has to have
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: your own thing or do you do you allow X
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: players and managers to come back to Twins camp? No,
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: we have got are you asking for a specific reason?
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: Like yes, I wanted to hear you're a direct Yeah,
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: we have a bunch of people. Morning was here before,
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: he was at the WBC with Canada. Tonya Leva just left.
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: I mean Moletor's coming in today. So yeah, we have
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: we have guys around.
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: Because I was.
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: Wondering, does TK come in? Do you bring like TK
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: and garden Hier.
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: Now I don't know when this is being aired, but
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: Guardy will be making an apparently very quickly.
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: What about Tom Kelly?
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: TK is not and but t K is around target field?
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: And the great thing about t K did you play
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: for t K? Yes, you're that Yes, yes I am.
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: I'm not that great like you though, but I'm not
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: there for a few years. And let's see how that.
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: Uh No, but t K. I think the great thing
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: about t K, and you would love this actually because
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: of the fact that you were here, is at my
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: opening press conference, t K pulled me aside and had
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: a conversation with me about some things that he thought
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: about should be the Twins way, and.
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: It was brilliant tell me because I want to know.
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: Okay, so yelling at young guys him like like the
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: PfP don't even get it's how it started. And t
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: K pulled me aside and talked to me about it.
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: And we have implemented some of the things that that
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: he felt were important, because you know, he's the ultimate
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: twins Man. We used to go out to the little
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: field out there and it's called the t K oh
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: I know in the Stelly field too. The Stelly's out
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: there now too, yes, And we used to sit out
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: there for hours and just I would stand there.
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: We're not out there for hours and we have not
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: had anybody get screamed at first base wise. But Morty
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: did tell me something that was really impactful during camp.
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: He's like, you know, TK used to tell me, if
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: I can stand out here and get on you on
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: this field in March and you can handle it and
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: you can't handle it, how are you going to handle
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: it at the Metrodome in October? And it rains true
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: the game?
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: Did Morneault also tell you the story about when Tom
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: Kelly told him, Hey, we need to go work on
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: fielding and and Morneau looks at him and goes I
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: got this bad.
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: He was in the cage. He goes, as long as
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: I got this, I don't need to go out.
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: He left it out and that actually happened. I would
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: like to know what the backside of that conversation from
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: he was out there on the field.
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: Let's just say the next.
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: And also next time you see TK asking about David Ortiz,
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: who's in the Hall of Fame.
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: He almost killed them One day.
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: We used to call it Iwo jima, the like the
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: night field out there and we were doing pop up drills.
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: Tom Kelly would always go to the far field. He
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: was a manager, right, he'd go to the far field.
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: David was playing first, I was catching. I was young,
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: so he didn't talk to me. Hits a pop up
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: and it falls, and he was so mad. He took
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: his fungo and he threw it and David had to
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: jump over it.
• 18:07
  Speaker 6: That would not be good, no good to be hit him.
• 18:13
  Speaker 6: But unfortunately he didn't hit anybody. But I got I
• 18:17
  Speaker 6: was able to get some knowledge and listen.
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: I look back on TK. When I was young, we
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: all did not like him, But now I look back
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: and he had a lot of really good ideas. Just
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: maybe the execution wasn't the best.
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: Well, I think the thing that we found out about
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: TK is his ideas stand the test of time, you know.
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: And I think with good teachers and good leaders, those messages,
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: you know, stand the length of time. And I really
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: appreciate I told someone. They asked me, they said, well,
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: what was your conversation like with t K at your
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: press conversation said it was not a conversation. It was
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: a monologue. It was one way. It was one way directed.
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: But I loved I appreciate the time that he took
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: the time, and he cares that much about it.
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: He was great.
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: I looked back, So Shelton, thank you. And by the way,
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: Molnors coming, Molly's gonna be looking for your job.
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: He had this one.
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: I know.
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: I was sat next to him for a while. Well, Selty,
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: thank you, man. I really wish you know them but
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: the best. And people know this about me. One thing
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: that I will say. People know me as a white sock,
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: but I still consider myself there's a small sliver.
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: I mean, that's a twin.
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: I love that. Until you get on the south side
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: and well, of course.
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Chelty, Shelty, though, wait before we go, he almost
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: didn't shake your hand. He almost didn't shake hand. I mean,
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: I couldn't get a handshake. He's a white sock. He's
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: a white sock. You're an al Central opponent now, so
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: that's why he didn't do it, his little cal Rawley
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: Randy of Rosarina.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: I'm Caldough. You're you'rery that sixty you hit. I'm advancing,
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: you're not. Thanks Italy, Okay, all right, thank you, Chelsey
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: all I gotta go. Yeah, I'm here with Royce Lewis
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: twin Star. By the way, Eric, if you want to
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: lose weight and stop eating sweetses, do like I didn't
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: give it up for lent, so it's easy, you know,
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: just just become Catholic overnight and just give it up
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: for forty days and you'll over right.
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: I went to Catholic school. A good food, that's training, Yeah,
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: pretty much.
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: What do you like to eat?
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: I love ice cream? I love ice cream. But what's
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: what's that thing for you that you're like? I know
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: I shouldn't have it, but I'm I'm gonna get after.
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I love ice cream, chocolate chip cookies. I think
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: those are hard ones to beat. Man hogging'dss coffee is
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: my go to really. Yeah.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: The ice cream, the ice cream you put that, you
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: know you can put the There's these restaurants to have
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: this thing of skillet and they bring out this cookie
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: and then they put the ice cream on top of
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: it and melts.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's called a perzuki.
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: It's called a perzuki. Pizza cooks.
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: I'm all in on the perzuki. It's it's good in
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: Fort Myers too. We got one like ten minutes away.
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: So it's really Oh yeah, I know where to do.
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: So you go there all the time. No, No, I
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: actually haven't been there anytime. They weigh these guys in now.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: They weigh these guys in now every day when they
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: walk in and do their body changed a lot.
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: It's totally changed, even since i've you know, come up
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: and it's just different. But it's unique and I think
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: it's growing. You can tell.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: Okay, So I told this story the other day and
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: I got to ask Roysis since he's we're in Twins camp.
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: When I was at the Twins, we didn't when I
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: first got here, we didn't even lift weights.
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: We didn't even know.
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: We didn't have a weight room here. We had nothing.
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: We just we bare.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: We didn't have a string coach. Really we had one,
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: but he was just kind of there because they didn't
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: like it.
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: We also.
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: Had like no food restriction, so now they have dinner
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: and everything here for you. Oh yeah, so do you
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: eat three meals a day at the ballpark? Because for me,
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: it was like we got a like hot Rod, who
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: was one of our assistant clubies, is the equipment guy here.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: He's like, yeah, when you guys were here, there was
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: peeb and jay and maybe a tuna fish sandwich.
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: So what you guys get three meals a day at
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: this place?
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: Now?
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they serve breakfast and lunch, no dinner the day games,
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: no dinner because everyone's pretty much gone by, okay, so
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: it's really nice. Honestly, I get the same meal every
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: day for breakfast. Lunch is great. Breakfast it's an egg
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: scramble with bell pepper, spinach and sausage and him, gosh,
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: you get change. So it changed so much leaned out
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: over here, you know what I mean? Changed so much?
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: All right, last last Twins throwback question, because AJ and
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: the Joe Mauer poster behind you are what we what
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: what We'll discuss the whole time here, but last one.
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: This is how much it's changed too. AJ used to
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: have to pay for his extra sets of equipment because
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: the team wouldn't.
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: Pay for No. No, no, no, no, no no. Let's
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: get the story straight.
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: It wasn't extra.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: It was we asked for a fleece. We asked when
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: the first fleeces came out. The Twins said, no, we
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: play in the Metrodome.
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: We don't.
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: We don't have the money for it.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: It's seventy two degrees every day, so we don't need
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: the flee And we're like, but every other team has
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: them and they wear them when they come to the Metro.
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: No, guys, we can't have it. So we had a player,
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: Mike Fetters, buy him for the whole team. Good player,
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: good teammate, right, good, thank you, But no, I think
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: that's a little tough. You know, you still have eighty
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: one games not in the Metro Dome. Thank you. I
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: need that fleece, right. Plus it's swaggy, that's good.
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: Look.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: That was when they like nowadays everyone has seven hoodies,
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: you know, this and that, shorts and all this stuff.
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: We had nothing. I like the old school baggy look.
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: Even in the NBA you bring that kind of look back.
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: It looks way better. The pajamas. Yeah, the pajamas.
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: I like it.
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: I like, how's how's camp going. It's going wonderful. Man.
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: I feel like I've finally grown into a good routine
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: and understood like where I need to be in camp
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: for the season and get ready for March twenty sixth.
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: And it's it's exciting having quality at bats for the
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: most part. You know, I'm still human. I'm going to
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: chase that change up that looks really enticing to it.
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: But it's fun. It's going really good.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: What do you what do you need?
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: You said, I feel like I know what I need
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: to do to get ready for the season.
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: What does that look like?
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: What is the difference?
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah, the biggest difference, honestly was two things. One confidence
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: and two is a good routine. Having a great routine
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: in which I come in every morning, I do the
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: same thing. It's pretty much like rinse, clean, repeat, and
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: that's all I'm doing right now in spring and it's
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: really nice. It's pretten fun and honestly, if it makes
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: my body feel better too, so yeah, I think for me, honestly,
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: it was just like having a good you know routine
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: in the off season too. That started right away, which
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: is you know, running and feeling confident my legs again,
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: lifting heavy so I have you know, enough power and
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: gain that power and I feel like every day I
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: can come to the ballpark and hit a home run
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: and not feel like it's coming off the back week.
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: And so those are two things for me that I
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: focused on right as well as you know, eat and
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: ride and just having fun with my family and taking
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: advantage of that off season. Carried over really well into
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: spring and have been kind of just on that repeat schedule. Up.
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: I guess that's that, crowds.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: Sorry crowds. I thought you were going it's me. You'll
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: put the camera on me. Oh it slash. My slack
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: is whack today, so just ignore the slack. I'm trying
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: to keep up and it's jumping around. So third base
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: for you, how do you stay on the field at
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: third base every day? Because when you're on the field,
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: you're an unbelievable player. How do we get you to
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: stay at third base every day?
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: I think it's just going out there and playing third
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: base every day too. This is gonna be huge, you know,
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: playing less DH at the end of last season. That
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: was huge and it helped me kind of be healthy
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: for the last eighty games there where I was available
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: and ready to go for Rocko whoever, wherever you needed me.
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: And playing third now that I feel like I've kind
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: of settled in and got that confidence as well. Over there,
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: it was just so uncomfortable at first. You know, it's
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: a totally different position than short even though yeah, I
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: left side the endfield, but at shortstop you have that time,
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: you have a little bit more range naturally, just by
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: being you know, ten feet further back, whatever it is.
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: And at thirty you really got to cut the distance
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: and get those plays, get those short hops, and once
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: you catch the ball, they should be out, you know.
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: And so we're working on making those good throws. And
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: it all starts with your feet. And I think that
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: is is key for me, is just go out there
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: every day and that'll help me be out there every day.
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: What's the difference? Explain that to people. Is it just quicker?
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: Is everything just quicker? The angle is different? What because
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: you came up as a short stop, right and obviously
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: now you're at third base, is just the angles? Is
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: the quickness of the game what's the biggest difference that
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: you've noticed.
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think the toughest place for me are you know,
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: going down the line farther away from first balls hit
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: one hundred and sixteen off of you know, Stanton's bat
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: coming at you know, and you're playing like middle depth
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: because double play depth, and those are the kind of
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: ones that are like you get you back on your
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: heels a little bit more and as you settle in,
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: you're like, okay, like, you know, I need to play
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: underwater over here, I got plenty of time as soon
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: as you catch it, like they should be out. And
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: so I think, you know, the best players in the game,
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: they kind of play so smooth over there. Manny Machado.
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: You know, Bragman does a great job. There's a bunch
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: of guys, but all those guys they play underwater. Keep
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: Brian Hayes is wonderful and when you watch them, it's
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: like slow motions. So that's that for me is the key.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: Well, then, any advice for Bobaschet because he just went
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: from short to third with the Mets. If you could
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: talk to Bobachet, what would your advice be for him?
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: I mean, I think Bo is very talented, he'll figure
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: it out. But I think the best thing I would
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: say to Bo would be just, you know, cutting the
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: distance was so huge for me, and it took me
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: like a year and a half to figure that out myself.
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: And so and when when what I mean by cut
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: the distance is like, if the ball is here and
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: you can go, you know, like let's say ninety degrees
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: towards it to pick it up, that's two more hops.
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: But if you go at a forty five and get
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: it and it's only one more hop, it gives you
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: that much more time to get the runner out it.
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: You know, it's a longer throw. You can set your feet,
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: take your time. And typically runners, especially in the big
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: leagues playing on one hundred and sixty two games, they
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: see you catch the ball and they see you set
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: your feet right, they're probably gonna not give it one
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: hundred and twenty percent effort down the line. So it
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: gives you a little bit more time.
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: Outsider's point of view, when people when your name's brought up,
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: when Byron Buckston's Name's brought up, they say, man, the
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: sky's the limit. The sky's the limit. They can stay healthy.
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: And I've heard you say about your routine and everything
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: and getting that under wraps. What can you and or
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: what have you been able to glean from Byron going
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: through the different injuries, weird injuries here and there, and
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: then putting together a full season and then boom, Byron Boxer.
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: You know he's a top ten MVP candidate.
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Buck is amazing, man, I'll tell you that right now,
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: real quick. But you know, the talent. I think when
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: you have so much talent, you got a quick twitch ability.
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: I think sometimes it's harder to harness that. And I
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: praise the Bobby Wits and the guys that are able
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: to you know, have that quick twitch ability but also
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: stay healthy because they're able to harness that ability. And
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: I think that's the name of the game, honestly, is
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: you know, you have so much God given ability and
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: honestly responsibility for the game to be out there and
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: be healthy and for your team. And I think harnessing
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: that in is something that's been huge. And I think
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: for me this year that's the biggest takeaway as well
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: going in the spring is I was able to harness
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: that ability. I don't have to run one hundred and
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: twenty percent down the line. I'm able to, you know,
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: take my time understand when hey, I'm out. These guys
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: are really good to They drive Mercedes too, you know,
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: and so just play the game and have fun doing it.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: Humble Bragg by the way, too, they drive Mercedes too,
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: not that they drive Mercedes, but too.
• 28:58
  Speaker 5: Yeah, Lewis drives and Mercedes. Good to note, Royce, you
• 29:02
  Speaker 5: have a new manager at the Helm, but it's not
• 29:06
  Speaker 5: a guy you're unfamiliar with. Obviously, Derek Shelton's been there
• 29:09
  Speaker 5: for the last couple of seasons. What has his managerial
• 29:12
  Speaker 5: style have been like with you in terms of I know,
• 29:14
  Speaker 5: guys are always talking about level of communication, open communication,
• 29:17
  Speaker 5: and he seems to be that guy. What more can
• 29:19
  Speaker 5: you tell us about what you've noticed as him as
• 29:21
  Speaker 5: your skipper.
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah, honestly, the huge communication piece, but also the set
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: and the standard of you know, everyone's gonna be working hard,
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: everyone's gonna be going on the road in spring. Everyone's well,
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: you have to go on the road. Yeah, we've been
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: going on the road. You got them great pants? Yeah,
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: the great pants are in the locker room. Bucks. They
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: don't have them great pants. He's he's on the road,
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: he's in Houston. So, uh no, it's just set in
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: a standard. You know, like we're a younger team obviously,
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: and so to be able to, you know, have that
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: opportunity to set the standard for the young guys to
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: see a good example, you know, from Buck, from Josh Bell,
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: from Guaranteini, all these guys that have been there, done that, Ryan, Jeffers,
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: Joe Ryan, even like his first game, guys on the
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: road like Temple Ba. So you know, we're not like
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: leaning towards favorites. We're all playing as a team. He
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: got twenty six different leaders in that locker room, and
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: that's how we're gonna play. And Sheltey's doing a great job. Yeah,
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: but that doesn't mean just because your leader doesn't that
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: means you don't go on the road. Yeah, sometimes you
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: got some time now. Yeah yeah, I guess so, but
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: I don't feel like that. I don't I never act
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: like that.
• 30:18
  Speaker 4: Okay, So yeah, Royce, don't change, don't let him, don't
• 30:22
  Speaker 4: let don't let that salt just get all over your
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: all over your nice uniform. Ajl aj.
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah he's got he's got LaTroy here now, trust me,
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: he ain't seen salty yet.
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: Now, there's there's some salt, But my question was gonna
• 30:39
  Speaker 4: be Shelton was the bench coach. Derek Shelton was the
• 30:42
  Speaker 4: bench coach when he was here. Now he's the manager.
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: Is it hard for some guys when you see somebody
• 30:48
  Speaker 4: that was in a different role now being the hefe
• 30:51
  Speaker 4: Is it hard to have the same relationship because it's like, well,
• 30:56
  Speaker 4: you know, I was this, now I'm this?
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: Or has Shelton been able to.
• 31:02
  Speaker 4: Meld into that, to easily ease into that role and
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: be the same guy that he was before?
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah, great question. Absolutely not with Shelta. You know, I
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: think he was born to be a head coach. I
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: truly do. I think he leads. He's like a born leader.
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: He leads very well, very smooth, very easy. It's like gravitational,
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: like everyone kind of goes towards him, asking questions, very
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: open to you know, his style coaching, which I really
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: you know, want to applaud him on that for one.
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: But also the staff he put together is helping him
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: be better persons as well. You know, having Grady Sizemore,
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: La Troy Hawkins back here, it's gonna help all of
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: our young guys gain some knowledge. But also just kind
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: of calm us down a little bit when times gets stressful.
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: There's gonna be points in season when we go, you
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: know too and eight a ten game road stand or
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: something crazy like that. And to have those guys that
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: have played the game at a high level and played
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: it very well is gonna be huge for for us
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: going forward. No doubt. Is there anybody left from when
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: Shelton was here? Though? Was Buck even here? Yeah? Buck
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: was here?
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: Buck was the only one, right my first big league
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: spring training camp? Okay, so yeah, because I'm like you,
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: I know you weren't here when in the big leagues
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: when Shelton was here, you no, But if my first
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: big league camp, so I met him. He's the one
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: that sent you down. The office was Rocco, But you know,
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: Sheldon had everything to do with it.
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: Right, Actually, I'm sorry it wasn't Rocco. Oh, Molly was
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: still here? Where is that old part? Man? He's around,
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: he's around, he's good man. He's supposed to be here.
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: I'm looking for I've been looking for him. I haven't
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: seen him here yet. You're right, that's a good point.
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: But he's I played crazy, right, what a player? Yeah?
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: He played with some stud players, played.
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: With some old people. That's what I did.
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: All right before we let you go.
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: I have to ask you this because I've always I've
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: never gotten a chance to ask because you have one
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: of the great quotes of all time, and you I
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: don't know if it's I'm gonna attribute to you.
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: And you said something like I don't slump, or I
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: don't believe in slumps or do you remember what you said?
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: There was something about like I won't go over twenty
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: or I don't do slumps. Do you remember what you said?
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah, like the word like I don't I don't think
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: of it as like a slump. I think of it
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: as like you know, because I think when you put
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: yourself in that mind frame of like, oh I'm slumping,
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: just that's like, oh, everything's going wrong for me, and
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: it's very negative. I think that's what I was trying
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: to portray. I think if you knew who I was
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: as a person, you'd be like, oh, okay, like I'm
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: not a cocky guy. I'm not gonna say I'm not dude,
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: I'm a hitter. We're gonna get out a lot, of course,
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: so I expect to get out. It's gonna happen a
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: ton more. But when I said that, I meant initially like,
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: I don't do that, that word, like, I don't put
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: myself in that negative headspace. I really just because they're like, oh,
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: you went over three yesterday. I was the first time
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: you went hit list da da da. I remember all
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: about it. Trust me, that was a tough time for me.
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: People take my words out of context.
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, shoot, that's what it was awesome because
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: what you said, though I took it the way you
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: said it, like I don't want to talk. I'm not
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: going to talk like that because it brings me down,
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: makes me think bad. And I think some people were like, oh,
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: this guy goes over five, like you know, oh we can't.
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: He doesn't.
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: He thinks he's too cool, right, And I didn't think
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: it like that at all. Yeah, I wish I would
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: have had that, cause I'm like, go for seven. I'm going,
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: oh my gosh, Tom Kelly is not going to play
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: me for a month.
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: Oh gosh.
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: It's so easy to freak out and get stressed out
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: and bring that home. And I don't accept to do that,
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: you know, I choose to leave it at the field,
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: like you know, at the end of the day, it
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: is a game that we're playing for fun, and you
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: got to, you know, accept that blessing and just remember
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: that how much fun you're having. Like I'm playing out
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: there like I'm a ten year old kid, and when
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: I'm not doing that, it does feel like I'm a
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: alove and it's not very fun. And so I choose to,
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: you know, play like a ten year old and not
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: be in that negative headspace. I love it. I love it.
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: To explain.
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: Please, we're gonna talk after he leaves, and I want
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: to learn how to do that, because that's amazing.
• 34:38
  Speaker 5: Yeah, Usually it takes a much more veteran player to
• 34:40
  Speaker 5: realize you can leave it at the game and just
• 34:43
  Speaker 5: try to let it go. You have to have a
• 34:44
  Speaker 5: memory of a goldfish, like Ted Lesso says, Right, Royce,
• 34:47
  Speaker 5: we appreciate you very much, man, stay healthy. You are
• 34:50
  Speaker 5: such a good star in this game. We're looking forward
• 34:53
  Speaker 5: to seeing what you can do this season. Thanks for
• 34:55
  Speaker 5: taking the time.
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: Hey, thank you guys. I really appreciate it. Man, it's
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: been great. See a j man not not salty, all right,
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: He's pretty salty. I'm not gonna lie
• 35:10
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I